"every doctor I know things it's murder"
Really! Canadian doctors perform abortions every day. And almost half of American women between 25 and 40 have had at least one abortion! So if you know 5 women, then two of them had had an abortion from a doctor! Any females over 25 in your family?? ;-)
Annual Abortion Rates
Note: For the facts/statistics from the 2007 page scroll down.
In 2010, the latest year on record, 64,641 abortions were performed on Canadian women as reported by hospitals and clinics. According to The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), who have taken over the role of disseminating abortion data from Statistics Canada, this number does not include abortions performed in Quebec, clinic data for British Columbia is incomplete due to voluntary reporting, and abortions performed on women who reside outside Ontario but who have received an abortion in an Ontario clinic are not included, meaning that the actual figure, while unknown, is much higher.
Even with underreported and underrepresented figures, it is clear that more than three million abortions have occurred in Canada since 1969, when abortion was first decriminalized. Statistics Canada tables show a recorded total of 2,838,328 abortions between 1974 and 2006. CIHI tables show a recorded total of 353,034 abortions between 2007 and 2010, which means that the total number of “reported” abortions that took place between 1974 and 2010 in Canada is 3,191,362.
Table detailing the number of reported abortions in Canada by province/territory in 2010 (Click here for a pdf of this table):
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